Power Balance

[Barb]

Well its all over. After long debates and disagreements about historicity, we both stepped out of the game. My opponent couldnt bear the fact that he loss the 25th US division and Luganville as the last drop. I even offered him to evacuate his units, but that didnt do either. [:(] Anyway daily disagreements with him due to a game didnt do any good for me too. So the best way was to stop playing.

Now I'll probably wait until the next official patch is out, and then I could try to start 2x2 or 2x3 game.

[5thGuardsTankArmy]

ORIGINAL: Barb

Hi,

at first I am Japanese player. However now I am speaking on behalf of my PBEM partner playing the Allies.

I played for the allies two or three times in old witp and I know it is not easy to play the side that is "losing" at the moment. He threatened to seriously quit three times already - but I managed to convince him to play along.

First thing: A Japanese division and regiment kicked three australian brigades off Port Moresby in January on first deliberate attack. It was as surprising to him as to me. I supposed that I will prevail, but not on first attack with 4:3 ratio.

Second thing: We had a "small" carrier battle we reversed (to convince him to stay in the game). 84 Dauntless bombers managed to hit 3 carriers with 1 bomb each and two battleships with 6 and 5 bombs respectively. Shouldnt the carriers had priority? How could Allies with CA/CL escorts get fair CV-CV battle with Japs that have BBs in their CVTF? To get some hits on the BBs is OK, but why it was three times more than carriers?

Third thing: We reduced fighters to: sweep at best mvr altitude, CAP and escort on second best altitude. So P-40E and A6M2 Zero or Ki-43 Oscar could sweep at 15,000 and cap at 20,000. He is using squadrons that were training since the start of war or their arrival on map. It is June 1942 and he is losing almost two times the number Japanese are losing. In total he had lost 534 fighters in A2A (867 fighters total of 1430 planes total) to my 276 fighters in A2A (517 fighters total of 1440 planes total). Majority of my losses are unescorted bombers, flak and operational losses. My sweeps usually has 1:1-2 kill ratio. His sweeps got massacred in 5-10:1 kill ratio. He has lost more P-40Es than he has got in replacements.

How are the allies supposed to win air supperiority? Are the allies supposed to EVADE Japs until second half of 1943?

My ADVICE to you sir, dumb that man you call opponent andf get a real opponent.
This I say because thretening to leave the game in itself should be reason enugth for you to dump that unserius (and incompetent?) opponent.

My two €uro's anyway..

[offenseman]

The fellow sounds most unreasonable.  It is lucky he did it now rather than after investing even more time into it; before he lost one more of something that made the game unplayable.